Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society - New Publication

national | arts and media | other press Saturday August 13, 2011 15:30 by Jolly Red Gaint

The publication follows on from a two-day Conference held in the University of Limerick last October with the same title as the book. There will be an official launch of the book in Limerick and Dublin in early September.

Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society

Editors: Micheal O’Flynn, Odette Clarke, Paul M. Hayes and Martin J. Power

Published by: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Date Of Publication: Sep 2011

Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3164-2

Isbn: 1-4438-3164-6

Contents of Publication:

Bridging Marxism: Academia and the Irish Left ......................................... 1

Micheal O’Flynn, Odette Clarke, Paul M. Hayes and Martin J. Power

Socialist Revolution in Ireland—A Lost Opportunity 1916-1922............... 7

Dominic Haugh

Class Conflict in South Leitrim................................................................. 21

 Stephen Ryan

 Socialist Literature in Britain: The Traces of the Irish

 Working-Class........................................................................................... 33

 Micheal O’hAodha

 The Hunger Strikes—A Defeat for Republicanism, a Defeat

 for the Working Class................................................................................ 47

 John McAnulty

 The Coming Revolution in Ireland ............................................................ 61

 D.R. O’Connor Lysaght

 Does Ownership of the Means of Production Matter?

 An Empirical Test of the Outcomes for Capital and Labour

 in the Irish Manufacturing Sector .............................................................. 71

 Thomas Turner

 Ireland’s Ruling Class: Capital, Enlightened Technocrats

 and Ventriloquist Dummies....................................................................... 91

 Micheal O’Flynn

 How does the Social Model of Disability Challenge the Notion

 of Charity? ............................................................................................... 115

 Kieran McNulty

 Ireland’s State Enterprises—A Marxist Response to the Emergent

 Neo-Keynesian and Pro-state Capitalist Perspectives ............................. 135

 Clare Daly

 Resisting the Class War from Above....................................................... 147

 Dave Hill

 After Shock: The Aftermath of the Irish Economic Crash ...................... 171

 Kieran Allen

 A Hidden Ireland: Reflections on the Intellectual Life of the Irish Left.. 191

 Helena Sheehan

 Contributors............................................................................................. 199

There is a sample pdf of the contents and first part of the book available here -

[url]http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-3164-2-sample.pdf[/url]